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The title of Murakami Haruki2019s short story “Ōto 1979” (Nausea 1979, published in 1984) suggests that it is a rewriting of Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel, La nausée (Nausea, 1938).
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Kiriyama, D. (2016). “You’re Probably Not that Innocent Either, Mr. Murakami”. In: Strecher, M.C., Thomas, P.L. (eds) Haruki Murakami. Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-462-6_8
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